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To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2014, Official Report,
column 389W, on the legal profession, what proportion of the money spent on consultancy
fees by the Crown Prosecution Service was paid to which companies for what services
in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014 to date.

<p>A table setting out the proportion of the money spent on consultancy fees by the
Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) paid to companies for services in financial years
from 2010/11 to 2013/14 has been placed in the Library of the House, together with
the corresponding expenditure. The CPS financial reporting systems are configured
to provide information based on financial rather than calendar years.</p>

To ask the Attorney General, how many judicial reviews there were involving Government
departments according to records held by the (a) Treasury Solicitor and (b) Administrative
Court Office in each of the last four years; and how many such reviews were upheld
in whole or in part in each such year.

<p>The Treasury Solicitor’s Department holds records relating only to those cases
in which it has acted. The Treasury Solicitor represents most, but not all, government
departments in litigation. For example, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs normally
conducts its own litigation. According to records held by the Treasury Solicitor,
the number of judicial reviews involving government departments in which it has acted
in each of the last four years is as follows:</p><p>2010 – 8,566</p><p>2011 – 9,603</p><p>2012
– 10,274</p><p>2013 – 16,449</p><p>Information relating to how many of those reviews
were upheld in whole or in part in each year is not held centrally and could not be
created without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p><del class="ministerial">The
Administrative Court Office does not collate the information requested centrally and
determining the number of reviews and how many such reviews were upheld in whole or
in part would incur a disproportionate cost.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The
information requested in respect of the Administrative Court Office is published online
at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/267408/additional-court-tables-2012.xls"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/267408/additional-court-tables-2012.xls</a>
. The 2013 data is not currently available.</ins></p>

<p>GLD expenditure on IPads and tablets (including VAT):</p><p> </p><p>2012: nil</p><p>2013:
nil</p><p>2014: £12,252.00</p><p>2015: nil</p><p>2016: £24,933.12</p><p> </p><p>GLD
has consistently consumed 13,960 boxes (69,800 reams) of paper per annum for the last
5 years. The cost for the period 2016-17 to date was £76,241. Accurate costs for earlier
periods cannot be determined except at disproportionate cost since they form part
of composite billing for all stationery.</p><p> </p><p>HMCPSI Expenditure on IPads
and tablets (including VAT):</p><p> </p><p>2012: nil</p><p>2013: nil</p><p>2014: nil</p><p>2015:
nil</p><p>2016: nil</p><p> </p><p>Accurate costs for paper purchases cannot be determined
except at disproportionate cost since they form part of composite billing for all
stationery.</p><p> </p><p>CPS and AGO</p><p> </p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service
(CPS) has not spent any money on iPads in the last five years.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS,
including the Attorney General’s Office, spend on tablets over the last five years
has been provided in the table below:</p><p> </p><p>Year Cost of Tablet including
VAT(£)</p><p>2012 75,412</p><p>2013 0</p><p>2014 0</p><p>2015 46,077</p><p>2016 25,885*</p><p>*costs
are estimated for 2016</p><p> </p><p>(b) The CPS estimates that it has spent the following
amounts on paper over the last 5 years:</p><p> </p><p>Year Cost (£)</p><p>2012* 1,120,904</p><p>2013*
926,609</p><p>2014** 983,802</p><p>2015** 847,431</p><p>2016** 445,717</p><p>* costs
for 2012 and 2013 are based on historic data provided by CPS stationery suppliers</p><p>**
costs for 2014, 2015 and 2016 are estimated and based on total stationery spend for
the periods.</p><p>To identify all expenditure that relates solely and specifically
to paper would involve the manual checking of thousands of invoices and would incur
a disproportionate cost.</p><p>Accurate costs for AGO paper purchases cannot be determined
except at disproportionate cost since they form part of composite billing for all
stationery.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">SFO </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The
SFO does not separately record paper costs from overall stationery expenditure.</ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial"><em>Stationery Year Cost (£) </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2012-13
64,094</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2013-14 69,657</em></ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial"><em>2014-15 74,750</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2015-16
52,721</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2016-17* 40,916 </em></ins><ins
class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>iPads &amp; Tablets
<em>Year Cost (£)</em></em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2012-13 0</em></ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial"><em>2013-14 10,423</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2014-15
0</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2015-16 0</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2016-17*
9,475</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>*</em><strong><em>Spend as at
31/01/2017</em></strong></ins></p><p> </p>

To ask the Attorney General, how much his Department plans to spend on projects relating
to the UK leaving the EU in the next five years; and if he will list the projects
to which that funding has been assigned.

<p>Given the role of the Attorney General’s Department, it does not lead on specific
projects related to the UK leaving the EU and therefore has not incurred any additional
expenditure. None of the Law Officers’ Departments has received direct funding therefore
for work relating to the UK leaving the EU. Members of staff across the Law Officers’
Departments provide advice and analysis on different issues as required, and different
Government departments bid for funding from HMT to pay for their resource needs, including
the services of the Government Legal Department (GLD).</p>

To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2018 to Question
123531 on Attorney General: procurement, if he will list those contracts including
the supplier name and value of those contracts.

<p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has the following contracts with the government’s
strategic suppliers:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Supplier</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Contract</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Estimated
Value*</strong> <strong> £</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BT Plc</p></td><td><p>Multiple
landline phones, alarms and broadband service agreements</p></td><td><p><em>143,500</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capita</p></td><td><p>Contingent
Labour ONE Call-Off</p></td><td><p>136,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CGI</p></td><td><p>Payroll
Call-Off</p></td><td><p>1,300,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Finance
and Resource Management System Call-Off</p></td><td><p>200,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>Managed ICT Services contract; and</p></td><td><p>300,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>Applications Support and Data Hosting Call-Off</p></td><td><p>19,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Microsoft</p></td><td><p>Multiple
licencing agreements.</p></td><td><p><em>172,000</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oracle</p></td><td><p>Multiple
licencing agreements</p></td><td><p><em>470,000</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vodafone</p></td><td><p>Videoconferencing
service Call-Off</p></td><td><p>700,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>*
The Estimated Value is given as the value for the contract Term where the department
has signed a Call-Off Contract and the annual spend to 31 January 2018 where the department
has renewable licensing arrangements.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For the Serious
Fraud Office (SFO), the contracts are:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Supplier</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BT
plc</p></td><td><p>£15,897</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capita</p></td><td><p>£704,697</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vodafone</p></td><td><p>£75,905</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>To identify overall contract values for the Government Legal Department (GLD),
Attorney General Office (AGO) and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI)
would require the identification and examination of all awards made to the Strategic
Suppliers (as defined by the Crown Commercial Services) and this cannot be achieved
without incurring disproportionate cost. However, our payments to Strategic Suppliers,
for 2016-17 is set out below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Strategic
Supplier </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Expenditure</strong> <strong>2016-17</strong>
<strong>GLD</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Expenditure</strong> <strong>2016-17</strong>
<strong>AGO</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Expenditure</strong> <strong>2016-17</strong>
<strong>HMCPSI</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amey</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£335,965</p></td><td><p>
</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BT Plc</p></td><td><p>£1,699</p></td><td><p>£2,159</p></td><td><p>£1,308</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capgemini</p></td><td><p>£88,914</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capita</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">£424,655</del>
<ins class="ministerial">£6,369,832 </ins></p></td><td><p>£847*</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fujitsu</p></td><td><p>£561,131</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Microsoft</p></td><td><p>£62,178</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mitie</p></td><td><p>£186,854</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oracle</p></td><td><p>£34,126</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vodafone</p></td><td><p>£226,794</p></td><td><p>£43,763</p></td><td><p>£8,779</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>* The payment for this amount piggy backed on the contract that SFO had with
Capita.</p><p> </p>

<p>The Government Legal Department (GLD) does not own any estate but rents all of
its office space. GLD teams co-located with their client teams occupy client building
space as part of an overall fee agreement for the provision of legal services to clients.</p><p>The
Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) estate is comprised of 42 buildings with the types
of occupation shown in the table below. The HMCPSI estate is included as part of this.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Type
of Occupation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Buildings</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Square
Meters</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Freehold/Owned</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4,426
(7%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Commercial Lease</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>52,991
(78%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Licence to occupy</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>10,404
(15%)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO’s) estates have
always been rented either by a lease agreement, or a Civil Estate Occupancy Agreement
(MOTO). The SFO’s current estate is leased. The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) estate
is also leased.</p>

<p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not directly employ cleaning staff. Cleaning
services in buildings managed by the Department are outsourced. The suppliers pay,
as a minimum, the National Living Wage.</p><p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) pays
for cleaning services as part of its service charge. The contracted cleaners are paid
at least the minimum wage.</p><p>The Government Legal Department (GLD) and Her Majesty’s
Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) contract out their cleaning services;
the providers have committed to pay a minimum of the London living wage to the staff
who clean GLD’s London offices.</p><p>The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) contracts
out its cleaning services. The contracted cleaners are paid the National Living Wage.</p>

To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 20 February 2018 to Question
127856 on money laundering, how many of those businesses have been fined more than
once; and what the (a) average, (b) lowest and (c) highest value of those fines was.

<p>The ‎work of the FCA is a matter for HMT. Officials at HMT have advised that in
January 2017, the FCA fined Deutsche Bank £163 million, its largest ever financial
penalty for AML failings.</p><p> </p><p>All FCA fines levied against businesses are
published online. The link to the webpage can be found below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/2017-fines"
target="_blank">www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/2017-fines</a></p><p> </p><p>HMT
does not hold data on how many firms have been fined more than once, the lowest fine,
nor the average value of fines.</p>